Job overview
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is looking for a talented and motivated person to work within the clinical effectiveness team to provide leadership to the team.
Main duties of the job
Create, implement, and manage the Trust's Clinical Effectiveness Programme.
Support staff to improve quality of care through clinical audit and implement nationally agreed guidance and clinical standards/performance indicators.
Develop and review clinical effectiveness policies and procedures, ensure consistency, quality, on time and within budget.
Lead on delivery of clinical effectiveness-specific projects and proficient in using AMaT clinical audit management tool.
Support and advise on implementing and delivering audit and NICE guidance requirements and monitor progress to ensure participation and submission deadlines met/escalated as appropriate.
Your written skills will be excellent as you will produce clinical effectiveness policies, procedures, and reports for various bodies, including the Executive Management and Audit Committees.
You will have line management skills and experience, and knowledge of the clinical audit cycle and national governance and quality improvement agenda. Your communication skills and experience must be exceptional to inspire and motivate to drive forward initiatives in clinical audit and quality improvement across the Trust.
You will have collaborative and mature relational leadership skills.
Working for our organisation
Why colleagues think we are
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
1. Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
2. Management/leadership qualification or equivalent experience
3. Medical knowledge/ terminology
4. Evidence of continued study of NHS related issues/CPD
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
5. Clinical audit experience in an acute NHS trust
6. Experience of working in a management role which included leading and motivating a team
7. Experience of PSIRF and how clinical audit supports the framework and learning outcomes.
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
8. Ability to manage the development and delivery of large clinical audit and effectiveness projects
9. Ability to deliver the audit programme within the agreed resources
10. Ability to deliver clinical Audit/effectiveness and IT skills training for healthcare professionals and CAE staff
11. Excellent presentation and report writing skills.
12. Effective interpersonal, communication and facilitation skills
13. Ability to facilitate change resulting from audit projects
14. Excellent time management skills to ensure that personal audit portfolio is maintained
15. Excellent skills in Microsoft products, in particular Excel
16. Confident in mastering specific audit software
Desirable criteria
17. Knowledge of the clinical audit software AMaT
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Essential criteria
18. Ability to travel to different sites
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
I f you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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